On Fri, 10 May 2002 22:06:46 -0500 (CDT),
Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>On Sat, 11 May 2002, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> True, but if the iget change goes into 2.5 it will probably be
>> backported to 2.4 later, 2.4 still has the restriction.
>
>It's a two line change to Rules.make, so I suppose that can be backported
>as well ;-)
The change looks safe enough for the kernel but I worry about its
impact on distributors who play silly buggers with the modversion
files (R**H** springs to mind). It would be polite to check with the
major distributors before backporting the change to 2.4.
>It's needed anyway IIRC, since s390 and ISDN both have fsm.o, and both do
>export symbols.
ISDN on s390. The mind boggles.
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